Paul VI’s “Smoke of Satan” revealed

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Shawn Tribe at NLM links to an interview of Virgilio Cardinal Noe, Pope Paul VI’s Master of Ceremonies, who addresses the question of what or who Paul VI was referring to when making his famous “Smoke of Satan” statement in his homily on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul in 1972. Here is the original answer in Italian:

Here is a merging of Google and Yahoo translations with minimal clean-up:

You of Petrus made a hit, because I can reveal, for the first time, what Paul VI intended to denounce with that statement. Here Pope Montini, by ‘Satan’, wanted to classify all those priests or bishops and cardinals who do not render worship to the Lord, badly celebrating the Holy Mass because of an incorrect interpretation and application of Vatican II. He spoke of ‘the smoke of Satan’ because he argued that those priests, who of the Holy Mass made straw in the name of creativity, in reality were possessed by the vainglory and pride of the Evil One. So the ’smoke of Satan’ was none other than the mentality that wanted to overturn the traditional and liturgical canons of Eucharistic ceremony.